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My dear I.O." -- I received your letter of the fifteenth this afternoon and am certainly sorry I shall be unable to see you before leaving for Princeton. In regard to your questions. To get my furniture go down to Patton Hall and ask for the janitor "Andy" or Mrs. Haupt, who is the chambermaid, for that part of the building in which I lived. He or she will tell you what they did with the furniture. Then go to the janitor of your own building, Witherspoon, and he may help you or tell you how to get it into your room. If he can bring it over for you, give him a tip for whatever he charges, or what you think it is worth. If he can't bring it over, get an express wagon, or first I would see the man who is in charge of the storing of the furniture, I believe his name is Higgins, and he will bring it over or if he can't, then get an express wagon at the station. In case Patton Hall is closed, as it might be since so few are going back, then go to the University police, who are under Stanhope Hall and they may tell you where to find the man in charge of storing the furniture first and get his advice. Then, if he can't help you, get your janitor or an express wagon. The furniture may possibly still be in my room. Leave your suitcase and all baggage in your room so as to be absolutely free from luggage when you go around after arriving. You will undoubtedly find your room in an awful mess, it may look like a deserted attic store room, but a sweeping out and a little furniture and pictures will make all the difference in the world. Don't try to fix it all up in one day for you will get discouraged, - you have all year. There will be no "horsing" at the University and no one can make you do a thing. I don't know what the Freshman rules will be this year but they will be published in the Princetonian when you first arrive. I have an idea that they will be much simpler than last year. Skull caps, black ties, black socks and shoes, Keeping off grass, and undercover at nine p.m., I think this will be all. You will find out, however, soon enough. You will not have to go by any laws whatsoever until the formal opening of college which will be some afternoon in the Chapel. Here President Hibben will speak and you will see all of the "profs" parade in with their different colored robes, indicating their degrees. As you come out of the Chapel through the Freshman door, you will see the upper classmen gathered around and giving you the severest kind of a critical eye. You will feel like an ant in the middle of the ocean. In the old days this is the time when the initiating began, this time, however, your career as a Princeton under-graduate begins and you are subject from this time on, to the laws which will be published. We have all had to go through this and it brings

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My dear I.O." -- I received your letter of the fifteenth this afternoon and am certainly sorry I shall be unable to see you before leaving for Princeton. In regard to your questions. To get my furniture go down to Patton Hall and ask for the janitor "Andy" or Mrs. Haupt, who is the chambermaid, for that part of the building in which I lived. He or she will tell you what they did with the furniture. Then go to the janitor of your own building, Witherspoon, and he may help you or tell you how to get it into your room. If he can bring it over for you, give him a tip for whatever he charges, or what you think it is worth. If he can't bring it over, get an express wagon, or first I would see the man who is in charge of the storing of the furniture, I believe his name is Higgins, and he will bring it over or if he can't, then get an express wagon at the station. In case Patton Hall is closed, as it might be since so few are going back, then go to the University police, who are under Stanhope Hall and they may tell you where to find the man in charge of storing the furniture first and get his advice. Then, if he can't help you, get your janitor or an express wagon. The furniture may possibly still be in my room. Leave your suitcase and all baggage in your room so as to be absolutely free from luggage when you go around after arriving. You will undoubtedly find your room in an awful mess, it may look like a deserted attic store room, but a sweeping out and a little furniture and pictures will make all the difference in the world. Don't try to fix it all up in one day for you will get discouraged, - you have all year. There will be no "horsing" at the University and no one can make you do a thing. I don't know what the Freshman rules will be this year but they will be published in the Princetonian when you first arrive. I have an idea that they will be much simpler than last year. Skull caps, black ties, black socks and shoes, Keeping off grass, and undercover at nine p.m., I think this will be all. You will find out, however, soon enough. You will not have to go by any laws whatsoever until the formal opening of college which will be some afternoon in the Chapel. Here President Hibben will speak and you will see all of the "profs" parade in with their different colored robes, indicating their degrees. As you come out of the Chapel through the Freshman door, you will see the upper classmen gathered around and giving you the severest kind of a critical eye. You will feel like an ant in the middle of the ocean. In the old days this is the time when the initiating began, this time, however, your career as a Princeton under-graduate begins and you are subject from this time on, to the laws which will be published. We have all had to go through this and it brings